Some yahoo answers people say these poetry books are lewd and discussting-do u agree?

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Some yahoo answers people say these poetry books are lewd and discussting-do u agree Is poetry judged on its content or its artistic merit regardless if it is about lewd and discusting topics

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Answer 1

I don't know which poems you speak of, but poetry is not judged by it's content, but it's artistic merit.
Anyone who knows anything about poetry will tell you that.

What shocks and offends some, does not another.
When reading poetry, you cannot judge it by what it says but HOW it is said.
A poem about a dog scratching at the fence seems like a mundane poem, but how is that dog, it's surroundings and it's actions being described?
All poetry has merit, whether it be nature, erotic, love or war poetry.
Some people do not like dark poetry because it delves into the darkest nature and existence of human beings, they say it depresses them.
Some people find nature poetry too boring to read.
It depends on what a particular poem makes you feel, and that is why you read it.
Lewd and Disgusting poetry?
What is it lewd and disgusting really?

I attended a reading by a very famous poet last year.
Some people were there because she was so famous, some were there to get their college credits, and some like me, were there because they truly loved her work.
At the end of the reading she started to read some of her new poetry...probably some of the last she will ever write...it was war poetry. People started to get up and walk out.
Got up and walked out!! On this celebrated poet! Because what she was saying offended them. But they did not hear the meaning and beauty of it, they couldn't get past their shock of WHAT she was saying.

You be the judge of what is lewd for you, no one else can do that for you.

Answer 2

Yes - certainly lewd.

Doesn't this follow in a long history of lewd poetry though?

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", Bocaccio's "Decameron" spring to mind.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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